Johann Elert Bode
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Johann Elert Bode was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name.
Bode c. 1800
Front page of a 1772 edition of Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels
Section of a plate from Uranographia showing the constellation Orion
Allgemeine Betrachtungen über das Weltgebäude, 1808
Uranus
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls
Johann Elert Bode
…1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Bode was born in Hamburg. As a youth, he suffered from a serious eye disease that particularly damaged his right eye…
William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus
Johann Elert Bode, the astronomer who suggested the name Uranus
Uranus seen through an amateur telescope, shortly after lunar occultation, during the November 2022 lunar eclipse
Size comparison of Earth and Uranus